On Oct 3, 2026, at 19:24, Skip Tavakkolian <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> if you have a dynamic prompt, then the fn example in
> the quiz would also need to be created for every prompt which would
> pollute /env a fair bit.

My solution to that is like this: 

prompt=(': '$sysname'; ' '      ')
fn       :       {}

On terminals the prompt is just ":;", but start with ": ", end with ";", and 
put whatever dynamic bits you like in between; no environment pollution 
necessary.

(I think I got this from rsc.)

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